The Covenant of Salt / As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought

by H. Clay Trumbull

• Iago, reference to, [55].
• Ideas precede words, [3].
• Importance of salt in covenant, [32].
• Infant, salt put into mouth of, [90].
• Inspiration by wine, [118].
• Intoxication by wine, [118].

• Jabal, reference to, [160].
• Japheth, reference to, [41].
• Jastrow, Rev. Dr. Marcus: cited, [57], [86], [112], [137].
• Jesus: references of, to salt, [64] f.;
  • new commandment of, [169].
• Jews: careful to drain blood from slaughtered animals, [39];
  • observing covenant of salt at table, [84];
  • table customs among, [87].
• Josephus: cited, [83].
• Jubal, reference to, [161].
• Judas Iscariot, reference to, [113].

• "Kadesh-barnea," reference to, [58].
• Kaffir chief, washed in blood upon assuming authority, [60].
• Karna, reference to, [34].
• Kauravas, reference to, [34].
• Kluge: cited, [74].
• Kohler, Dr. K.: cited, [88].
• Kookies of India, treaty of peace among, [123].
• Koordistan, salt lake in region of, [59].
• Krishna, reference to, [34].
• Kuhn: cited, [74].

• Laiss-safar, worker in brass and copper, [26].
• Lane: cited, [24], [64], [100].
• Lange, reference to, [65].
• Layard: cited, [26].
• Lea, Henry C.: cited, [101], [124].
• "League," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
• Lebanon region, blood covenant in, [48].
• Leland, quotation from, [93].
• Leprosy, prominence of salt as cure for, [45].
• Life: dependent on salt, [42];
  • salt representing, [53]-70;
  • seasoned with, [67];
  • and light, [73]-76;
  • savor of, [133]-138.
• Light, life and, [73]-76.
• Livingstone, Dr. David: cited, [37] f., [38].
• London Court Journal, reference to, [125].
• London Quarterly Review, reference to, [43].
• Lot's wife turned to pillar of salt, [103].
• Lying, reference to, [167] f.

• Macgregor, John, experiences with Arabs, [32] f., [33].
• Macrae, quotation from, [126].
• Macrobius: cited, [49].
• Madagascar, covenant of salt in, [34].
• Mahabharata, quoted and cited, [33] f.
• Man offered in sacrifice, [91].
• Marie, Princess, reference to, [125].
• Marriage: a covenant, [7];
  • salt and bread placed under threshold at, [106].
• Martène: cited, [101].
• "Martyrdom of an Empress," [129].
• Masai people, reference to, [37].
• Meal, salt of the covenant not to be lacking from the, [18].
• Meaning of the word "covenant," [3] f.
• Means of a merged life, [141], [142].
• Meat, eating of, as a pledge, [24].
• Mecca, "blood-lickers" in, reference to, [48].
• Mediterranean Sea, water not to be taken from, [70].
• Merged life, means of, [141], [142].
• Merrill, Selah: cited, [24].
• "Merry Wives of Windsor," reference to, [55].
• Message-bearer, salt in hand of, [126].
• Meyer's commentary, reference to, [65].
• Milk: substitute for salt, [62];
  • used instead of blood, [62].
• "Milk and honey" standing for blood and flesh, [80].
• "Milk brothers," reference to, [62].
• Money, salt as, [69].
• Morier, James, reference to, [54].
• Morris's "China:" cited, [92].
• Morton, Dr. Thomas G.: cited, [41].
• Mountains of salt, [70].
• Müller, F. Max, reference to, [91] f.
• Moody, D. L., reference to, [156].
• Moses, reference to, [148], [158].
• "Mother," Oriental meaning of term, [160].
• Mount Sinai, Moses at, [148].

• Name signifying personality, [155] f.
• Naming child, ceremony of, [124].
• Napier, James: cited, [101] f., [104], [138].
• Neptune, reference to, [23].
• Nicoll, reference to, [65].
• Niebuhr: cited, [24].
• Noah: use of blood as food forbidden to, [41];
  • reference to, [163].
• Norwach: cited, [7], [14], [137].

• Oath: Oriental form of, [54];
  • different forms of, [123].
• "Obligation," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
• Old Testament, word "covenant" in, [18].
• Oriental: form of oath, [54];
  • meaning of terms "father" and "mother," [160];
  • summit of treachery, [111].
• Orientals, Bible written by, [146].
• Othello, reference to, [55].
• Oxford University, giving salt to students in, [127].

• Page, Master, reference to, [54].
• Pasha, Arabi, reference to, [130].
• Pasha, Moldovanji, reference to, [28].
• Paul, reference to, [67].
• Perley, quotation from, [125].
• Perpetuity, salt as symbol of, [84].
• Perspiration, salt shown in, [40].
• Philinus, reference to, [56].
• Philology, archeology sometimes more valuable than, [4].
• Pierrotti: cited, [24].
• Plato, reference to, [53].
• Pledge, eating meat as a, [24].
• Pliny: cited, [45], [68], [70], [73], [94], [119].
• Plutarch: cited, [23], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [119].
• Poison of rattlesnake, [43].
• Polo, Marco: cited, [69].
• Preface to Ten Commandments, [150].
• Price's "Mohammedan History:" cited, [27], [42].
• Priests, salt forbidden to, [55].
• Primitive covenanting, [6].
• "Promise," used interchangeably with "covenant," [5].
• Pythagoras: reference to, [70];
  • quotation from, [88].

• Quain's "Dictionary of Medicine:" cited, [40], [62].

• Ralston's "Songs of Russian People:" cited, [106].
• Raphel, Don: reference to, [30];
  • quotation from, [31];
  • cited, [111] f.
• Rattlesnake, poison of, [43].
• Rawlinson's "Ancient Egypt," quotation from, [93].
• Resuscitating drowned persons by salt, [63].
• Richardson's English Dictionary, reference to, [96].
• Ring as symbol and pledge of union, [7].
• Robbery attempted by Yakoob, [26] f.
• Robinson, Dr. Edward: cited, [166].
• Rodd's "Customs:" cited, [101].
• Rosenmuller: cited, [30];
  • reference to, [54].
• Russell's "Natural History of Aleppo," quotation from, [24].